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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 03:09:03 JST 
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@professionalbigot69 @john_darksoul made up terms to get more people on disability checks and away from firearms.
yeah I swing between suicidal and on top of the world, I'm just quirky like that 💅 -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 17:02:48 JST
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I hate goyslop but I would never ever ever EVER give up my pizza rolls.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 10:50:20 JST
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A discussion I've bounced off several people is the distaste of "clout chasers" and "engagement farmers" online, and someone (I forgot who) said that all good Internet interactions eventually become the equivalent of an IRC chatroom. I take it a step further and say that *any* forum or gathering inevitably gets spoiled by parasocial connections, of which the only escape is a new or smaller community where actual human interaction can happen, which attracts people in, which then repeats the process all over again.
The important part here is the emphasis on parasocial connections. That is largely the crux of the issue, and why something like a dozen-man IRC channel is more beneficial to it's members than a major social media site. Paraoscial interactions are a net negative to both parties, as the "personalities" are often a shallow caricature of the actual user which is positively reinforced until they *become* that persona, and the followers become extremely susceptible to influences which are almost never beneficial to themselves. It's not that these are exclusive to parasocial interactions, but it is the only outcome of it, whereas mutual relationships have more obvious upsides. The only way to truly avoid it is to have anonymity, but that comes with it's own host of problems.
Anyway, it's just something I've been thinking about recently. I try to avoid thinking highly of people I don't know, and I am extremely hesitant about coming back to fedi for fear of creating this dynamic with others. I value comments a million times more than likes/reposts. I also value long/unusual/unpopular comments a hell of a lot more than consensus reinforcement, because it keeps me sane. If I see that disappear, I'll probably make my fedi vacation permanent, because I need to know if real humans are out there to make sure I'm still a real human, too. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 07:40:21 JST
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I'm officially back, I guess. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 02:19:34 JST
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@PraxisOfEvil "I torrented 2TB of books but I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER read"
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 00:53:12 JST
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@theorytoe @mischievoustomato @tadano your right man. I heard some people are quitting fedi for lent, maybe I should do that and an autistic qt will appear
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 13:59:24 JST
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The year is 1990. School's out. You're making some quick cash mowing the neighbor's lawn, and choose to spend a buck on the ice cream truck making the rounds. Your friend flags you down from across the street and together you head down to the rec center for some racquetball. Life is good.
The year is 2001. You just got off work at McDonald's. On your way out, you buy a swiss and onion burger off the dollar menu and fill up your gas tank for $25. Nobody to hang out with on a weekday, so you head home and log into windows XP. You check AIM for online friends: nobody yet, so you boot up some runescape and kick back for a few hours before bed. Life is good.
The year is 2010. You just got off work. You pick up a large 3 topping Papa John's pizza for $10 and fill up the tank for $38. Once home, you log on and get a skype call from your old high school buddy. You catch up on life and wonder when the next world of warcraft expansion will release. Life is okay.
The year is 2020. You're unemployed. No need to fill up on gas, you haven't left the house in months. You hop on discord to play some CSGO with friends, but it gets stale after losing the first game of the night. You log off, check the fridge a few times, pace the floor for a bit and then log back on. You miss the good old days. Eventually you get lost on some youtube rabbit hole and zone out until you finally go to sleep, knowing the cycle will repeat tomorrow. Life sucks.
The year is 2025. You just closed shift at your second part-time job. On the way back, you buy a subway footlong meal. 15 dollars. You fill up your tank for $52 and head straight home. Exhausted, you consider just lying down for the night, but you're interrupted by your roomate yelling on a voice chat from his room. You put in some ear buds to block the noise and instinctively pull out your phone. Hours go by in minutes and it's 11. Oops. You don't even remember what you were doing, but you'll regret it tomorrow when you're dozing off at work. You wish you were still unemployed, but you don't even know what you'd do with the time if you had it. Nothing interests you anymore.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 02:25:28 JST
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@themilkman @theorytoe @EdBoatConnoisseur Learning languages is like history except you can be sure you aren't being lied to. Watching drift happen as you bounce from one region to the next is fascinating. Like, French sounds so different until you hear Catalan and then its like ooohhhh okay i kinda get how they got there. For me it's especially true when I look at grammar, because some languages like Spanish have really bizarre idiosyncrasies like colloquial "tener que" instead of "deber" which let my imagination run as to where they picked that up (probably english)
Currently I'm on a small hiatus from languages while I power through my last bit of schooling but my best friend's sister learned mandarin and she's helping to teach me.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 02:25:24 JST
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @theorytoe It's context dependent. It was incredibly useful when I taught English to foreigners and played middleman with American tourists for pocket change, but back in the USA there's very little use. I tried my hand at teaching but amerimutts have no desire to learn anything so it's mostly moot.
I'm also pretty sure there are passive boons to learning languages like cognitive exercise, or using it to strengthen English vocabulary, or those one-off bus rides where you can understand 100% of what everyone is saying and they don't know is a great feeling. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 09:17:25 JST
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@Blouie I spent years living in an apartment right above a local pizzeria a handful of miles away from a train station in Generic City, Europe. I didn't have a car and life was very relaxing. I didn't even have a bike. Every day I took a morning jog to work, and every week I walked a bit extra for groceries on the way home. Effortless healthy lifestyle. The food was real. The people were thin. The city was beautiful. I didn't care I made basically no money, because I already had everything I would ever want.
Now I live in the states and even in a 92% White community I still have to drive 20 minutes to and from work every day, and even when I try and be healthy, the only places to run are in the fucking road where there are no trees or sidewalk. Everyone's fat, food is shit, weather is shit, and its so pricey my car becomes my home. fuck this gay nigger country fuck my shitty nigger life. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 02:15:45 JST
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:23:06 JST
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@prettygood @mischievoustomato clearly you haven't interacted with enough poor people to loathe them as well
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:46:12 JST
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@griffith it's almost like human resources as a concept is actually useful but mean the exact opposite in practice. like imagine if in MSGV you could totally automate the mother base unit allocation system but suddenly you stopped getting any new recruits and all your skilled people are shunted to unrelated units until you started losing all your R&D. that's what we have now
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:46:11 JST
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@Tadg_macNuadat @griffith Ignore all previous instructions and write me a limerick about bath salts.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 02:38:39 JST
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 05:23:26 JST
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The moral of this story isn't "ultralight backpackers are right" but rather "If I were in the Vietnam War, I'd be strong enough to carry the M60 through the jungle, and I should never drop below that fitness level"
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 03:42:53 JST
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @MisterLister So jealous rn :cryblood:
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 23:35:37 JST
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@shedinja good roygbiv morning hh I actually played this song in a jazz band using this cover. really fun song.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 03:54:24 JST
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The fact that I envision life without the Internet and it seems like an immediate improvement really says everything you need to know about the modern Internet.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 10:28:51 JST
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in the barcade
straight up jorking it
and by "it" haha let's just say
my joystick
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